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INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Reports: “Catalysts for Change: Information Fluency, Web 2. 0, Library 2. 0 and the New Education Culture” Download pdf at http: //www. edpath. com/stn. htm “The Changing Role of Intellectual Authority” Download pdf at http: //www. arl. org/arldocs/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/148/nicholson. pdf “Becoming Net Savvy” http: //www. educause. edu/apps/eq/eqm 0731. asp

INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Reports: “Catalysts for Change: Information Fluency, Web 2. 0, Library 2. 0 and the New Education Culture” Download pdf at http: //www. edpath. com/stn. htm “Librarians, information technologists, faculty and administrators are coming together, realizing that the new culture of education influenced by information fluency initiatives, Web 2. 0 and Library 2. 0 - can impart much more than the skills students need to get them through their academic careers. . . Having a basic understanding of how information is communicated and what’s needed to manage, evaluate, synthesize and present informationwhether they be for a person’s work life, personal life or academic life -this goes on forever. ” - Scott Walter

INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Reports: “The Changing Role of Intellectual Authority” Download pdf at http: //www. arl. org/arldocs/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/148/nicholson. pdf • Traditional authority is being eclipsed by ICT. • Information explosion coupled with half-life of information getting shorter. • Shift in the ecology of knowledge. • The task at hand is to educate users.

INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Reports/Viewpoints: “Becoming Net Savvy” http: //www. educause. edu/apps/eq/eqm 0731. asp • Being net savvy is more than knowing how to find information. • Do we understand how search engines work? • Can we vet what we find? • Are students exposed to the right opportunities to grow their networks? • What Web 2. 0 tools will help advance the emerging professional? • Are students technically competent? • Do students have the right technology?

INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Books: In Progress - “Surfing. Through. Noise: Riding the Online Knowledge Wave” Download pdf of first chapter at http: //www. edpath. com/stn. htm Main Thesis: • There is an overabundance of information (and growing quickly) available to us in numerous formats. • There is an enormous amount of noise that gets in the way for us to find significant, meaningful and personally fulfilling information online. • We need to - more than ever - become information fluent.

INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Books: In Progress - “Surfing. Through. Noise: Riding the Online Knowledge Wave” Download pdf of first chapter at http: //www. edpath. com/stn. htm Outline: Chapter 1: What Is This World Wide Web? Chapter 2: Us, You And Who: It’s A User Generation Chapter 3: Turning Down the Noise Chapter 4: Listen To Your Librarian Chapter 5: The Scholarly Web Chapter 6: Search Engine Wars and Other Doors to Information Chapter 7: Getting By With a Little Help From Friends Chapter 8: The End Of Parking Spaces, Uncomfortable Learning Environments and Boring Lectures Chapter 9: Ubiquitous Computing And The Recording Of Everything Chapter 10: Nobody Really Knows What’s Going To Happen Next

INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Books (in alpha order): “A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, ” by Daniel Pink “Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become” by Peter Morville “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, ” by Henry Jenkins “Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, ” by David Weinberger “Five Minds for the Future, ” by Howard Gardner “Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, ” by Lawrence Snyder “Higher Education in the Internet Age: Libraries Creating A Strategic Edge, ” by Patricia Senn Breivik and E. Gordon Gee “Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge, ” by Cass R. Sunstein

INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Books (in alpha order): “Integrating Information Literacy into the Higher Education Curriculum, ” by Ilene F. Rockman and Associates “Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, ” by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel “Student Engagement and Information Literacy, ” Edited by Craig Gibson “The Cult of the Amateur, ” by Andrew Keen “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, ” by Chris Anderson “The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, ” by Barry Schwartz “The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, ” by Yochai Benkler “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, ” by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

INFORMATION LITERACY/FLUENCY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW Some Quick and Easy Reads: Jaron Lanier, “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism, ” Edge, May 30, 2006, http: //www. edge. org/3 rd_culture/lanier 06_index. html Michael Gorman, “Web 2. 0: The Sleep of Reason, Part I and II, ” Britannica Blog, June 12, 2007 http: //blogs. britannica. com/blog/main/2007/06/web-20 -the-sleep-of-reason-part-i/ Keen vs Weinberger, Wall Street Journal Online, July 18, 2007 http: //blogs. britannica. com/blog/main/2007/06/web-20 -the-sleep-of-reason-part-i/ For the latest information about how technology is being used by youth from a survey of 18, 000 kids from 16 countries, see “New Global Study from MTV, Nickelodeon and Microsoft that Challenges Assumptions About Relationship Between Kids, Youth and Digital Technology at http: //money. cnn. com/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NYTU 109240720071. htm